I use Nephele through Nginx Proxy Manager.

The cheapest one I know of is about $8 a month, so it should be affordable, even on a tight budget.

You can buy a super cheap cloud VM and use a (self hosted) VPN so it can access your own PC and a reverse proxy to forward all incoming requests to your own PC behind your school’s network.

It’s arguable whether this would violate their policy, since you are technically hosting something, but not accessible on the internet from their IP. So if you wanna be safe, don’t do this, otherwise, that could help you get started.

Yes, but then you’re not using IMAP.

If you’re using IMAP, the emails aren’t completely downloaded by Thunderbird, just the headers.

Backups and rollbacks should be your next endeavor.

Try it. Just change an environment variable, then run up -d and you’ll see.

You don’t actually need to run down first. Just a docker compose pull if you haven’t made any changes, then docker compose up -d will restart whatever needs to be restarted.

Yay Jellyfin! What an awesome app!

You could make a new movie library named “Christian Propaganda”, put them all in there, and only give your mom access. She’ll probably be mad, but it’ll be funny and you’re technically abiding by her request. Once you have your laugh, you can change the name to “Christian Movies”.

Damn dude. Nice score. :D

Webmail has been a Nextcloud feature for years. They improved it. That’s literally what you just asked for. Improving the core components.

Hey hey hey. That’s not fair. You also have to

sudo apt install docker.io docker-compose

If you don’t like bugs, you shouldn’t be using software. Especially not software designed to do more than one thing. And extra especially not software designed to run on more than one system.

But maybe a Casio watch would be fine for you. Mine hasn’t had any bugs.

If you don’t have a surplus of time, Docker should be your top priority. It will save you many many hours.

I don’t think that should worry you for what you want to do with it. Ext4 or btrfs will work fine for your use case.

Basically anything will work if you pop an Intel A380 in there and set up hardware encoding.

Honestly, a decently fast CPU with QuickSync will work just fine without a GPU. Something like a mini PC with an Intel N100 would work great.

There’s also no reason to use an NVMe RAID. Either just buy a big NVMe or use a HDD raid. Either way, have a backup solution if that’s what you’re going for, cause RAID is not backup.

As far as BSD, I have no idea if that will work. I guess if it runs Docker, you can use the Jellyfin Docker image. What makes you want to use it over Linux?

That’s awesome. Immich is one of the most professional self hosted solutions I’ve used, so I love to see this.

I don’t really name my servers anything special (just hperrin-server, smtp1, smtp2, etc), but I like to name my projects after figures in Greek mythology.

• Nymph, my ORM
• Nephele, my WebDAV server
• Soteria, my security camera system

If you set it up really well, you’ll probably only need to invest maybe an hour or so every week or two. But it also depends on what kind of maintenance you mean. I spend a lot of time downloading things and putting them in the right place so that my TV is properly entertaining. Is that maintenance? As for updating things, I’ve set up most of that to be automatic. The stuff that’s not automatic, like pulling new docker images, I do every couple weeks. Sometimes that involves running update scripts or changing configs. Usually it’s just a couple commands.